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A Writ for unattended Complaints-- a simple remedy for Citizens.

I will begin with, to recall historic incident of Indian freedom struggle, occasioned with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (His Journey towards Mahatma). In the year 1893, when in South Africa, while holding a First Class Compartment ticket and traveling in, Mohandas was thrown out of the train, for in those times “Blacks” were not allowed to travel in the First Class Compartment, notwithstanding they hold a valid ticket. It was 9.00 in the chilled night. That designated “Black” sent a Telegram to the General Manager of the Railways and registered his complaint. The Complaint of that designated “Black” was attended forthwith, and the General Manager instructed the Station Master to secure that the complainant reaches his destination safely. The complainant was accommodated in the very next morning train to his destination. And it is no exaggeration if I were to say that, here in the era of INDEPENDENCE and 21st Century of modern democracy, we the people of Sovereign India, whose com...